Sewer work may cause night delays downtown

Published 11:48 pm, Tuesday, October 9, 2012

MILFORD -- The city's downtown is getting improved sewer capacity, but as the saying goes -- you have to break an egg to make an omelette.

Construction work began Tuesday on the so-called High Street Sanitary Sewer Upgrade project, which will increase the diameter of the sewer pipe in the vicinity of High and Broad streets from 8 to 12 inches.

All of the sewer work will be performed at night. However, Ray Macaluso, the consulting engineer, said that a water main will first have to be relocated, necessitating the daytime road work on Broad Street this week.

The $497,000 project involves replacing 1,500 linear feet of sewer pipe along High Street. Completion is expected to take about four weeks, or in time for the city's Veterans Day parade, Macaluso said.